“Other Emergencies” is a euphemism for liberal/non-white protests. The idea of their home town being overrun by “leftist” mob violence occupies both the nightmares and the fever dreams of the kinds of gun owners who would respond to this call-up.
DeSantis reactivated the Florida State Guard on similar grounds of “disaster relief” then started training them like soldiers. Now he has a force of 1500 or so that reports directly to him and cannot be federalized. He even sent a few of them to the Texas border to test the waters.
Expect to see more of these yokels try to muster up armed thugs in the coming months. I fear the worst no matter the outcome of the election.
We’re very, very close to a tipping point where armed militia come knocking, looking for undesirables.
Said it 100 times, blacks, women and LGBT folks have been the largest gun buying demographic for a few years. They got the memo.
Laura Curran maybe wasn’t the greatest county exec ever, but at least she never tried to raise a militia to keep people of color from getting “uppity”.